Bill Text: CA SB1057 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Juvenile justice coordinating council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1057 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1057-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1057

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Introduced by Senator Menjivar

February 08, 2024

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An act to amend Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1057, as introduced, Menjivar. Juveniles.

Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over minors who are between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who have violated a federal, state, or local law or ordinance, as specified, and over minors under 12 years of age who have been alleged to have committed specified crimes. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to adjudge a person under these circumstances to be a ward of the court.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

602.

 (a) Except as provided in Section 707, any minor who is between 12 years of age and 17 years of age, inclusive, when he or she the minor violates any law of this state or of the United States or any ordinance of any city or county of this state defining crime other than an ordinance establishing a curfew based solely on age, is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court.

(b) Any minor who is under 12 years of age when he or she the minor is alleged to have committed any of the following offenses is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court:

(1) Murder.

(2) Rape by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury.

(3) Sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury.

(4) Oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury.

(5) Sexual penetration by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury.